Re: warning: filename ends with '.', which is not allowed on Win

On 7 March 2014 11:41, Rui Paulo <rpaulo@freebsd.org> wrote:
> On 6 Mar 2014, at 23:30, David Xu <davidxu@FreeBSD.org> wrote:
>> it seems filename ended with a dot is illegal on Windows, if someone
>> wants to check out freebsd source code on Windows, it will be a problem.
>
> Is this something we want to support?

Yes.

>   NetBSD made some invasive changes on their source tree to be able to support case-insensitive filesystems (like renaming 'cvs' to 'xcvs' to avoid clashing with the 'CVS' metadata directory), but they support building NetBSD on many different platforms.

Has anyone enumerated the problematic files for FreeBSD ?

>  We don't support that yet, though.

However, being able to checkout out the source code is a prerequisite
to building out other platforms.

> The file in question can be easily renamed, I think.

-- 
Eitan Adler
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